EFFECTIVE Fall 2018

NEW - Psychology B.S. with a Specialization in Cognitive Psychology (PC29)

Cognitive Psychology includes understanding reasoning, thinking, language, judgment, and decision making in adults and children (including attention, memory, and visual and auditory information processing).

Experimental psychology uses scientific tools and concepts: knowledge of formal systems such as logic or calculus, probability theory, computer science, chemistry, biology, physics, and statistics. Accordingly, students in upper-division courses must have an adequate background in these topics.

Lower-division courses for the major should be completed by the end of the sophomore year. These requirements will guarantee an adequate background for the topics of the upper division psychology courses.

3 Natural Science Courses (choosethree of the following)

BILD 1, 2, 3, 10, 12**, 20, 26 (BILD 22 is NOT accepted)

CHEM 4*, 6A, 6B, 6C, 11*, 12, 13

COGS 17**

PHYS 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 2C, 10, 11

PSYC 2**

*Only one of CHEM 4 or 11 can be taken for credit.**Only one of BILD 12, COGS 17 or PSYC 2 may be counted towards this requirement.

*Successful completion of PSYC 194ABC fully satisfies the research requirement.

**If the research experience requirement is fully satisfied by PSYC 99 and/or 199, one of these must culminate in a research paper approved by the faculty advisor and submitted to the Psychology Student Affairs Office no later than Friday of the tenth week of the graduating quarter.

Classes towards the major must be taken for a letter grade. The only exceptions are: natural science, computer programming, formal skills, PSYC 195 (up to 1 by petition), AIP 197 (up to 1 by petition), PSYC 99, PSYC 199.

Graduate courses (2XX) are not generally accepted for credit towards the major, but petitions for exceptions will be considered.

A maximum of three upper-division courses towards the major may be taken outside of UC San Diego (seePetitions).

A grade-point average of at least 2.0 in the upper-division major courses is required for graduation.